Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Balanced budgets and symbolic politics
  • The economics of deficit spending
  • Colonial deficits, constitutional restrictions, and the rise of Hamiltonian government
  • Creating a symbol : balanced budgets and the concept of corruption
  • Distorting a symbol : Republican Party government, 1861-1932
  • Transforming a symbol : Democratic Party government, 1933-1980
  • Coming to grips with a symbol : Ronald Reagan and unbalanced budgets
  • Appendixes. State debts and the development of off-budget spending, 1860-1984 ; The Reagan budget battles, FY 1982-1985 ; Federal receipts, expenditures, surpluses, deficits, and debt, 1789-1984.